“So much great music was made for many years that speaks to where we’re at right now in the world. I wanted to find a way to connect the dots by telling the story through the music that was already produced, and try to make it make sense for the times that we’re living in right now. So I put together a list that speaks to Black people, speaks to Black power, speaks to enlightenment, and speaks to suffering and struggle. And it speaks to hope and us getting to the future of being what we need to be. I wanted to give people something to feel good about, something to reminisce about, something to think about. Just something to just know that this music that you’re going to listen to is generational. It ain’t going nowhere. It’s going to be here forever.” —Uncle Snoop